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I am very busy writing a new static blogging engine in Perl and writing actual blog posts. This means that my new blog, this one, is currently a bit in limbo and desparate for a better design, links, etc. This will be done, eventually. Also, my old blog MexIT will move here sometime in 2021.

2023-05-25 Aquamacs 3.6 Hangs When Saving An Encrypted File
2023-01-28 PAR trouble
2021-06-28 How To Create a Bootable LibreELEC Installation using Mac OS
2021-06-18 Running pdflatex Using the Alpine Pandoc LaTeX Docker Image
2021-06-17 A Docker Image for Sass
2021-06-14 Timezones in Alpine Docker Containers
2021-06-11 A Tale of Three Docker Images
2021-06-09 Debugging a Perl Docker container
2021-06-03 Perl Time::Piece Unicode Issue
2021-06-02 Giving Docker Desktop for macOS a Second Chance
2021-01-24 Flashing another TP-Link TL-WDR4300 with OpenWrt firmware
2020-09-28 Rehousing two tarantulas
2020-03-28 Getting started with the Perl version of tumblelog on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
2020-03-07 A visit to Avonturia De Vogelkelder
2019-11-08 Flashing a TP-Link TL-WDR4300 with OpenWrt firmware
2019-10-17 Mounting a VDI File in a Different VirtualBox Guest
2019-10-17 Wireless Headless Raspberry Pi
2019-10-09 A Matter of Time
2019-10-09 Hand coding an RSS 2.0 feed in Perl
2019-10-09 Hand coding an RSS 2.0 feed in Python
2019-10-09 RFC #822 and RFC #3339 dates in Perl
2019-10-09 RFC #822 and RFC #3339 dates in Python
2019-09-24 Nav Element with no Heading
2019-09-16 Rewriting CommonMark Nodes in Perl "right" this time
2019-09-12 Rewriting CommonMark Nodes in Perl
2019-09-04 ISO week and year in Perl
2019-08-11 Adding Twitter Card and Facebook Sharing Support to Tumblelog
2019-06-16 Git permission issue with VirtualBox shared folders
2019-06-08 A clean install of macOS Mojave 10.14 on a fusion drive
2019-05-30 Building GoAccess from source on Ubuntu
2019-05-27 SSH Public Key Authentication How To
2019-05-21 Finding duplicate files with jdupes
2019-05-20 Twitter Card and Facebook Sharing
2019-05-13 Blocklisting top level domains with Postfix
2019-04-19 Building the latest version of ProxyChains-NG on Ubuntu 18.10
2019-04-12 Additional font locks for Markdown in Emacs
2019-04-12 SEO friendly titles for tumblelog
2019-04-08 Python re.sub gotcha
2019-04-07 Create a static tumblelog with Python
2019-04-03 A JSON feed for tumblelog
2019-04-02 Fixing Skipping ssh-dss key ... not in PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes
2019-03-30 Create a static tumblelog with Perl
2019-03-21 Driving a Perl script via find command
2019-03-08 Posting a tweet picked from a file at random
2019-03-08 Running a Perl program via cron using system perl or Perlbrew
2019-03-04 Proxying multiple locations with NGINX
2019-02-28 How to Alias a file in Apache webserver
2019-02-22 How to make Python scripts work in the Gimp on Ubuntu 18.10
2019-01-05 Getting rid of [INFO] FoUserAgent on Linux
2017-07-07 An earth snake on the road
2017-06-29 In-memory compression and decompression of JSON data
2017-06-26 Running Ubuntu 17.04 on VirtualBox with Shared Folders
2017-06-20 How anxiety got me rejected twice today
2017-06-20 VirtualBox shared folder makes cmake_symlink_library fail
2017-06-15 Disappearing claws in the dark
2017-06-08 Using a plastic ice bucket as an orchid pot
2017-06-06 Logitech M215 wireless mouse works with Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
2017-06-04 Flashing a Linksys E1500 with DD-WRT firmware
2017-05-30 Adding Color to a LaTeX Resume
2017-05-17 Installing the latest version of Pandoc on Ubuntu 17.04
2017-04-29 A juvenile opossum in the kitchen
2017-04-28 Redirecting a POST as GET in Perl
2017-04-27 Perl Base64 encoded HMAC SHA256 signatures and padding
2017-04-24 Tunneling an API callback to development using NGINX and SSH
2016-11-26 Viewing DjVu Documents On OS X
2016-10-04 Mounting VirtualBox Shared Folders
2016-09-21 Docker for Mac Named Volume Speed Penalty
2016-09-14 Padding Numbers with Zero in Perl
2016-09-13 Getting Started with Docker for Mac
2016-09-13 Updating an iPad Air 2 to iOS 10
2016-09-09 Making iOS Notes available via iCloud
2016-09-06 Migrating Firefox from Linux to OS X
2016-09-02 Migrating a Parallels Virtual Machine to VirtualBox
2016-08-28 Blocking unwelcome site traffic using iptables
2016-08-28 Fixing broken links in my RSS feed
2016-08-28 Generating an HTML report with GoAccess
2016-08-26 Migrating Thunderbird from Linux to OS X
2016-08-26 When software subscriptions really suck
2016-08-23 Getting Started with Mac Ports
2016-08-23 Installing git on OS X
2016-08-20 Verifying the Weight of a Tyrannosaurus rex Skull
2016-08-10 Emacsclient on Ubuntu
2016-08-10 The Docker Book Updated
2016-08-09 Pandoc Resume LaTeX Template
2016-08-02 Tar files located in another directory
2016-08-01 Adding an extra column and a foreign key to a MySQL database table
2016-08-01 My non-fiction reading list for the rest of 2016